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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Amelie HastiePublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9781478020677ISBN 10: 1478020679 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 06 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue: Humble Origins and Dogged Returns xv Introduction: Murder by the Book 1 1. Mapping the Detective: Falk’s Early Drives 24 2. Best-Selling Mystery Team: Columbo and Televisual Collaboration 38 3. “I’m Fascinated by Money”: Rank, File, and Gumshoe Detection 72 4. Special Guest Stars: Hollywood Icons and Repeat Offenders 95 5. Between Columbo and Cassavetes: A Familial Pack 119 6. “An Obsessive Preoccupation with Gadgetry”: Columbo’s Investigation of Media Technologies 144 7. Columbo’s Reign: Of Life and Death and Detection 172 Epilogue: Loving and Leaving Columbo 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 219 Index 225Reviews“In Columbo, Amelie Hastie makes a compelling case for revisiting a series which had a global footprint in its heyday and continues to be a staple in rerun syndication. Hastie uses Columbo’s famous tagline ‘Just one more thing’ to think about the series—and by extension television as cultural form—in relation to a complex intertextual network of quotation, iteration, and intertexts. Columbo is an exciting book by a wonderful critic, historian, and writer.” -- Lynn Spigel, author of * TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life * “In Columbo, Amelie Hastie offers a comprehensive look at this essential popular television show, explaining its iconic status in the landscape of American popular culture along with the iconic status of its lead actor, Peter Falk. Hastie provides extensive information about the production history of the series, as well as an analysis of specific motifs and narratives. Columbo will stand as the go-to work for study of the series.” -- Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, New York University “Amelie Hastie makes a compelling case for revisiting a series that had a global footprint in its heyday and continues to be a staple in rerun syndication. Hastie uses Columbo’s famous tagline ‘Just one more thing’ to think about the series—and by extension television as cultural form—in relation to a complex intertextual network of quotation, iteration, and intertexts. Columbo is an exciting book by a wonderful critic, historian, and writer.” -- Lynn Spigel, author of * TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life * “In Columbo, Amelie Hastie offers a comprehensive look at this essential popular television show, explaining its iconic status in the landscape of American popular culture along with the iconic status of its lead actor, Peter Falk. Hastie provides extensive information about the production history of the series as well as an analysis of specific motifs and narratives. Columbo will stand as the go-to work for study of the series.” -- Dana Polan, Martin Scorsese Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University Author InformationAmelie Hastie is Nancy and Douglas D. Abbey ’71 Professor of Film and Media Studies and English at Amherst College and author of Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History, also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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